The Oxford Wildcats football team is one of the best teams in Oakland County this season. They are also a team full of great GRIDIRON names – some of them straight out of central casting for a Hollywood film about high school pigskin.

It all starts with 0-Town's longtime head coach, Bud Rowley, a fixture in the annals of greats in the state's coaching ranks. Is there a better name of a head coach in the area? Rowley's name just sounds like the name of a head football coach and reminds me of Jon Voight's character in the 1998 movie Varsity Blues, Bud Kilmer, legendary coach of the fictional West Caynan, Texas Coyotes.

Headlining the Wildcats attack this fall is running back-linebacker Prescott Line, the state's leading rusher with 1400 yards on the ground and a whopping 22 TDs. Another GREAT name. Come on, Prescott Line sounds like a name of a character in an old paperback sports book. Line's name is a headline-writer's dream come true; NEVER cross the LINE, Oxford Toes the Line, Wildcats Line up the victory,……etc!!!

O-Town's quarterback is freshman Glacier Wallington….Are you kidding me? Glacier? Now, that's an AWESOME first name. Glacier Wallington sounds like the name of a star high school field general on a soap opera, that's how cool the name is.

Then there is TOUGH-GUY names like Matt Anger, Matt Cappuciello, Matt Economou & Marty Ginaola. These guys have names – Anger, Cappuciello and Gianola – that sound like old school gridiron heroes of days yonder. Like from an old news reel from the 1950s where a baratoned-voiced narrator would say 'Oxford's defense was led by the terrorizing triumvirate of workhorse stalwarts like Matt Cappuciello, Matt Anger and Marty Gianola'!!!!!!

Matt Economou, the 'Cats playmaking starting safety, sounds like the name of a super hero, flat out. Put the woman and kids to bed, The ECONOMIZER is on the prowl and looking to hit somebody!!!

Going into their Week 7 showdown with state-ranked Southfield, the Wildcats (4-2) will look to pull their second straight upset, after downing RH Adams in overtime on the road in Week 6. With such a ferocious and focused group of players on Rowley's squad, I wouldn't put it past them to walk away from Friday night's squabble with the Bluejays unscathed and only one win away from putting 0-Town in the playoffs for the first time since 2008.